Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1933, Page 2

WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SOMERVILLE WINS | JUNE Heiress Behind the Bars THE EVENING 20, 1933, Just Before the Crash A2l STAR. MEDALIE'S SPEECH 4470 LOSE J0BS ATNAVAL HOSPITAL Dismissals Caused by Cur- tailment of Funds for Veterans There. Forty-four civilian employes at the Naval Hospital here will lose their jobs July 1, it was learned today at the Navy Department. It was explained that the dismissals are made necessary by curtailment of funds paid by the Veterans' Adminstra- tion for its patients at the hospital. Included in the number are 13 in the office group at the Naval Hospital and Naval Medical School, to which it is attached. C controls. PILOT ESCAPES BUT SHIP IS WRECKED HARLES ROCHEVILLE, World War ace, piloting his specially constructed | Tern amphibian plane, bullt to carry him through the upper McKenzie | River section to make a Serles of educational exploration pictures, | crashed on his initial test flight over Huntington Beach. Everything was going along smoothly when something went suddenly wrong with the Operation difficulties developed and the ship went into a long | Naval officials said some of the 44 glide to earth Rocheville. high up in the cockpit, was thrown clear of the plane civilians now are on leave without pay, until the end of the month, when they will be dismissed. ove of cutting The economy move pital facilities for veterans will that 700 civilian employes, now at- tached to naval hospitals throughout the country in various capacities, will lose their “positions. Officials of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery said the economies will materially affect the running of some of the Navy's largest hospitals. At New York, for instance, g hos- mean » and escaped with only minor injuries. The beautiful ship was completely wrecked. —Wide World Photo. PERSCNS MAPS OUT ENPLOYMENT UNIT they said, the capacity will be cut from | 1,000 beds to 150. Chauffeurs, cooks, mess attendants and mechanics will be among the 44 to lose their jobs at the Naval Hos: pital here. civillan workers at the hospital here. Officials of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery said the Naval Hospital here will suffer less severely in the re- duction of civilian workers than other institutions because here the number of patients from the Veterans’ Admin- istration and from the Navy itself were more nearly equal than in New York, ‘where the war veterans were far in the majority. —— TEXTILE INDUSTRY GIVES COTTON CODE Submits Plan to Federal Indus- trial Control Board for Approval. The following is part of the textile code submitted by a committee repre- senting the cotton textile industry to| the Federal Industrial Control Board for its approval at hearings to be held June 27: “With a view to keeping the Presi- dent informed as to the observance or non-observance of this code of fair com- petition, and as to whether the cotton textile industry is taking appropriate steps to effectuate the declared policy of the national industrial recovery act, each person engaged in the cotton tex- tile industry will furnish duly certified reports in substance as follows and in s;xdc:l form as may hereafter be pro- vided: 2 “Wages and hours of labor.—Returns every four weeks showing actual hours worked by the various occupational oups of employes and minimum week-" Tates of wages. “Machinery data—In the case of mills having no looms returns should be made every four weeks showing the number of spinning spindles in place, the num- ‘ber of spinning spindles actually oper- ated each week, the number of shifts and the total number of spindle hours each week. In the case of mills having no spinning spindles, returns every four weeks showing the number of looms in place, the number of looms actually ted each week; the number of shifts and the total number of loom hours each week. In the case of mills that have spinning spindles and looms returns every four weeks showing the number of spinning spindles and looms in place, the number of spinning spin- dles and looms actually operated each week, the number of shifts and the total number of spindle hours and loom hours each week. “Reports of production, sales stocks and orders—Weekly returns showing production in terms of the commonly used unit, i. e, linear yards, or pounds or pieces; stocks on hand sold and unsold stated in the same terms and unfilled orders stated also in the same terms, These returns are to be con- fined to staple constructions and broad divisions of cotton textiles. “The Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc., 820 Broadway, New York City, is con- stituted the agency to collect and re- ceive such reports. ENDS LIFE WITH GAS T0 ESCAPE ‘ENEMIES’ Georgian Opens Jet After Discuss- ing Other Forms of Self- Destruction. At present, there are 107/ Federal Service to Start Functioning Officially on First of Month. Preliminary steps looking toward the organization and functioning of the new United States Employment Service were being taken today, according to Director W. Frank Persons. He said he would hold conferences this week with officials so standards may be developed for the operation of State and local employment offices. He explained that, in the beginning these will be only the minimum standards essential to the carryigg on of the organization between the units, of which there is a systematic exchange and co-operation. The new system will begin to func- tion officially on July 1, Persons said. The director said he would appor- tion $1,125,000 of the appropriation to the States on a population basis, where an equal amount is made available by the States. This, in no event, is to be | Tess than $5,000, according to the Wag- ner law creating the new service. Twenty-four States already are main- taining employment services, Persons said, and they will be assisted in ex- panding and building up their work in accordance with the most approved pol- icies and practices. 'The new bureau also will assist any State not now main- taining a public employment service to establish one along lines most useful to that State. The objectives of the new service are to clear labor among the States, col- lect reliable and comparable informa- tion with respect to the demand for and supply of labor, carrying on re- umhnnhudwtheworkmdw make available to the State and local employment offices a vigorous leader- ship, Persons said. . GIVING THOUGHT TO RETIREMENT, SAYS MAJ. BROWN (Continued From First Page.) ver, has been thus far free from the fremendous barrages of criticism level- y recent predeces- sors. There has been no third-degree scandal such as wrecked the adminis- tration of Maj. Henry G. Pratt, no con- gressional harping on liquor enforce- ment such as was dinned into the ears of Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, and no bonus riots such as occurred during the Glass- ford regime. He e}?u been variously praised and criticized for his handling of the hunger marchers, who were herded on New York avenue northeast, and for his smashing up of a Communist parade with police clubs. Compared with those of his predecessors, however, his ad- ministration has been quiet indeed. At the moment Maj. Brown is busy trying to make the expenditures for his department in the coming fiscal year match his greatly curtailed appropria- tions. There is a reduction of $59,019 in the salary appropriation, all of which will probably be met by refraining from filling vacancies. At this time there are 20 vacancies on the regular force, 3 on the crossing police force and 3 in the civilian force. By July 1, through retirements, there will be 29 vacancies on the regular force and 4 on the cross- ing police force. Since salaries of the car companies, it will be possible to meet part of the reduction by transfer- ring four regular officers to the street crossing force. During the fiscal year it is expected ‘Ben Lamar Minor, 64, got away from his “enemies” today after a week of | hiding in_his rented room cvery time the door bell rang | A two-burner gas plate in his room, which was furnished for light house- Xeeping, was the means of escape he finally decided upon, although he had given serious consideration to most of the other means of self-destruction Minor, who described himself as a member of the “aristocratic Lamar fam- 1ly of Georgia,” rented the room, on the second floor of the home of George Scoggins, 225 Eighth street northeast a week ago today. He told Scoggins’ wife, Mrs, Annie Scoggins, to whom he paid a week’s rent in advance, that he had spent the past 10 years or 5o in the South, chiefly in Augusta, Ga., and Columbis Before returning South, he said, he had been engaged in the real estate business here and, when his “enemies” got to bothering him too much, he decided to come back to ‘Washingt When 1 Gibbs {ront room, arose to go to Work shortly before 5 ‘clock this mo Finally he decided he He ran to the door of Minor's room He awakened Scoggins and the two forced open the door. Minor was in bed and the r s A Ca Minor had been several hours. Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDon- ald issued. 3 certificate of suicide MRS. HIBBEN IS BURIED IN PRINCETON CEMETERY Widow of President Emeritus Died Saturday, Month After Acci- dent Fatal to Husband. By the Associated Press. PRINCETON, N. J. June 20—Mrs. John Grier Hibben. widow of the presi- Gent emeritus of Princeton University was buried yesterday beside the grave of her husband in ‘“president’s row” of the university cemetery Dean Robert R. Wicks of the uni: versity chapel officiated at the private services, held at the Hibben residence preceding the interment. Only mem- bers of the immediate family and repre- sentatives of the university attended. Six members of the junior class acted as_pallbearers. Mrs. Hibben, injured. in the auto ac- #dent in which her husband was killed died Saturday at the Meligh Cener ey * that there will be enough separations from the service through retirements to make up the balance of the short- age. In the civillan force, however, it will probably be necessary to furlough two employes indefinitely. There will be no new purchases of motor equipment, due to a reduction of $12,220 in this appropriation, and se- vere economies must be practiced to e up reductions of $9,210 in con- tingent expenses and $1,300 in the ap- propriation for care of stations and grounds. THAW'S SON TO FLY 22-Year-Old Youth to Enter Ben- dix Air Derby. NEW YORK, June 20 (#)—Russell Thaw, 22-year-old son of Harry K Thaw, announced today that he was entering the $10,000 Bendix Ald Derby | k to Los Angeles, to be in connection with the ces in the Thompson race, from New Yorl flown July 1 Los Angele; race Russell Boardman, trans- | fifer. SILVER IS GUARDED $1.500,000 Bullion Unloaded From China Under Protection. JERSEY CITY, N. J,, June 20 (®).— Guarded by more than a score of po- lice, $1,500,000 in silver bullion from China was unloaded yesteday from the liner President Roosevelt | The bullion was placed in armored | trucks and taken through the Holland Tu to New York for delivery to the k_whi in is the New York agent for of Shanghai. bullion consignment was the sec- reach here in the past few | b Th ond to months. — SWIMMER DROWNED ‘Thomas Holland, colored, one of a number of persons swimming in the | river at the foot of L street southeast |late yesterday afternoon, disappeared beneath the surface of the water and was drowned. Holland, 21, resided at 443 Second street southwest. Members of a fire rescue squad recovered his body and crossing policemen are paid by street | Realtor Dies ARTHUR CARR. ARTHUR CARR DIES OF HEART ATTACK Prominent Builder and Real- tor Succumbs at His Home Following Brief lliness. Arthur Carr, 60, prominent builder and realtor, died early today at his home, 5053 Massachusetts avenue, after a brief iliness. Death was due to a heart attack. Mr. Carr, who was well known in financial, realty and civic circles here, came to Washington from England in 1885 and has been a resident of the Capital since. After graduating from ‘Washington schools, he began his career with his father, Solomon Carr, in the building business. Perpetual Building Director. At the time of his death, he wer a director of the Perpetual Building As- sociation, president of the Real Estate Mortgage Guaranty Co., head of the real estate firm which bears his name and a member of the advisory board en branches of the Riggs National Bank. A former president of the Washing- ton Real Estate Board, he served for many years on that organization’s Ap- Committee as chairman, and was considered one of the city’s out- standing authorities on appraisal mat- ters. He was retained by the Gov- ernment to appraise the United States Supreme Court site and represented the Government in a number of other appraisal matters. 'or many years Mr. Carr was promi- nent in civic activities, having been secretary of the Washington Board of Trade for four years, a director for six years and an active member of its Membership Committee. He also served for many years as a director of the Real Estate Board. Active in Masonry. He was a past master of the Myron M. Parker Masonic Lodge, a Shriner and was a member of the Washington Commandery, Knights Templar; the Racquet Club, Manor Club and Arling- ton Wheel Men. His survivors include his widow, three sons, William A., Oliver T. and Robert B. Carr, and a daughter, Grace L. Carr. Three sisters, Miss Sarah Carr, Mrs. ‘Willlam Beale and Mrs. Madeline Lilly, and two brothers, Solomon and Josiah Carr, also survive. Although final funeral arrangements have not been completed, the service will take place Thursday at St. Alban’s Church, with full Masonic rites. AMERICA PRESSING ECONOMIC PLANS AT LONDON PARLEY (Continued From First Page.) the rising prices in this country are back at the desired “normal” level of 1926, Baruch was installed by President | Roosevelt with the request to remain in the vantage point until the Executive returns from his New England vaca- | tion. Official dispatches to and from | London are passing under his eye so | that to all intents he will be an admin- | istration official. Moley has been slated to go to London | all along, but his departure was moved | up so he could take to the delegates a personal word from Mr. Roosevelt as | to developments and co-ordinate their | course with the requirements of the domestic American situation. Moley Goes to London. Baruch, conspicuous as a Roosevelt adviser since pre-election days and al- ways a leader in Democratic party affairs, was chairman of the War In- dustries Board and economic adviser to | President Wilson at the Paris Peace "Con(erence. Two of his industrial col- leagues already hold key places in the Roosevelt administration: ~Hugh John- son, administrator of industrial control, and George N. Peek, director of the cqually sweeping farm relief enterprise Moley left Washington last night. He is taking the delegates a complete report of President Roosevelt's impressions of the domestic economic situation He was accompanied by Herbert Bayard Swope and Arthur Mullen, his assistant at the department. After a week or 10 days in London, Moley will return to the United States to give the | President a first hand picture of what 1s happening there. | While in London, Moley will be the guest of Ambassador Bingham at the | American embassy. | 2,000 Miners on Strike. | UNIONTOWN, Pa, June 20 (@) — | Protesting policles of three coal com- | panies, 2,000 men went on strike today. About 1,300 quit at Clyde Mines Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of the W. J. Rainey Co. near Brownsville. Four hundred struck at in Republic and 300 at Ol York | made unsuccessful efforts at resuscita- | the Republic Steel C lon’s plant tion. g llv’ P . INTATE PLAE IPON INDUSTRES Control Board Announces It Will Not Dictate Codes. (Continued From First Page). ing the war was secretary of the Cap- ital Issues Committee in Washington. Assistant for labor—Edward F. Mc- Grady of this city, legislative repre- sentative for many years of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. Chief of legal division—Donald R. Richberg of Chicago, attorney for rail- road brotherhoods and recognized I | Chairman of Labor Advisory Board— Dr. Leo Wolman, well known economist and former member of the facuities of Johns Hopkins University, Michigan, Harvard and now of Columbia. and director of the Lehman Corporation of New York, in charge of the corpora- tion’s department of economic research. Advisory Board Members. Members of the Labor Advisory Board named by Secretary of Labor Perkins include, beside Dr. Wolman, the follow- ing: John Frey, metal trades depart- ment, American Federation of Labor; Joseph Franklin, president, tional Boflermakers’ Union; Willlam H Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor: Sidney Hillman, presi- dent, Amalgamated Clothing Workers; | Father Francis Haas, Catholic Welfare | Council; Rose Schneiderman, secretary. Woman’s Trades Union League. | Members of the Industrial Advisory | Board named by Secretary of Com- | merce Roper, include: | Austin Finch, Thomasville, N. C. | president Thomasville Chair Co. Ed- ward N. Hurley, Chicago. chairman of board, Hurley Machine Co.; Louis Kir- | stein, vice president William Filene's Sons Co., Boston: Alfred P. Sloan, jr., New York, president General Motors | Corporation; Walter C. Teagle, New York, chairman of board, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; Gerarde Swope, New York, president General Electric Co.; Wwilllam J. Vereen, Maultrie, Ga., cot- ton manufacturer. A third board to be known as the Consumers’ Advisory Board to repre- | sent the buying public is yet to be named. Hearings to Be Held. Hearings and investigations in con- | nection with applications for approval of “codes of fair competition” will be conducted by deputy administrators, six of whom have been chosen from among the group who have been assertive in preliminary preparations. They are: W. L. Allen, New York, consulting metallurgist; Prof. Earl D. Howard, Northwestern University; Arthur D. Whiteside, president of Dun & Brad- street, Inc., New York; C. C. Williams, retired major general, former chief cf ordnance during World War; K. M. Simpson, consulting _engineer and metallurgist; Nelson Slater, president of S. Slater & Sons, manufacturers of cotton and rayon textiles. The function of the deputy admin- istrators, it was explained by Gen. Johnson, will be to assist him in the conduct of the hearings in which all of the units in an industry—employers and workers, both organized and unor- ganized—will be heard on any proposed “code of fair competition” to govern the industry. The code will fix mini- mum wages, maximum hours of work and prescribe regulations designed to eliminate unfair practices of every kind. Backed by Industries. Several days before the bill was passed Congress, Gen. Johnson pointed out, more than 400 of the country’s leading industrial, trade and labor organizations had given assur- ances and were making definite plans to take advantage of new opportunities under the measure or had officially sig- nified their intentions to co-operate in its administration. Among those organizations were the representatives of the great iron and steel, coal, automobile, copper, textile, garment industries, in addition to the American Federation of Labor, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, American National Retail Grocer Association, American Petroleum In- stitute, Dried Fruit Association of Cali- fornia, Manufacturers’ Association of Connecticut, National Association of Manufacturers and National League of Commission Merchants. Meantime, at the headquarters of Col. Donald H. Sawyer, administrator for the public works section of the recovery act, it was announced that road build- ing and ship construction have been chosen by the administrator as scouts for recovery campaign. Large Fund Allocated. Already $638,000,000 have been allo- cated for these two activities and the details are being worked out. For these, $238,000,000 have been put aside to start building the Navy up to treaty strength and $400,000,000 for grants to States for highway con- struction. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt disclosed that bids would be opened on July 26 for 17 new ships to be built at private shipyards. In addi- tion, bids on four more destroyers will be opened nearly three weeks earlier, on July 6. At about the same time Sawyer and his Cabinet Advisory Committee went forward with their efforts to get the first of new construction under way next month. The committee, headed by Secretary Ickes, drafted tentative details of policy and the Interior Secretary said “as soon as we can get our organization set up we will begin turning loose the public works money.” Many Projects Presented. Delegation after delegation called upon Sawyer to present proposed proj- ects from cities, counties and States to be financed under the authorization for the Government to grant 30 per cent of the cost of labor and materials. Among these was a proposal by Ohio’s adjutant general of a $400,000,000 pro- gram in that State, the first complete State plan to be formally laid before the administration. The naval construction program out- lined under the $3,300,000,000 public works allotment, includes 32 ships, of which 16 will go to private shipyards. Open to private bidding also will be [ cne cruiser previously authorized by aw. Under the program announced for 32 ships within the next three years, private contractors will get the two air- craft carriers and the four light cruis- | ers. They will receive 11 of 20 new de- | stroyers, leaving nine of 1,500 tons to be constructed in Navy yards, and in addition will be alloted half of the submarine construction, leaving two for | Navy yards. The Navy itself also will | build two gunboats of 2,000 tons each. | KIDNAPER FACES [{HARGE ‘ George McGee Ordered Before Com- missioner in McElroy Case. ROANOKE, Va., June 20 (#).—George McGee, held here as a_member of the gang which kidnaped Miss Mary MCcEIl- roy of Kansas and collected $30,000 ransom for her return to her home, was | ordered to be brought before United States Commissioner Charles D. Fox, Jjr., today, to be notified officially of the charges against him. Federal authorities took custody of authority in public utility rate litigation. | Chief of research and planning divi- | sion—Dr. Alexander Sachs, economist | Interna- | THIRD-ROUND TILT | Canadian Holder of U. S. Golf Title Scores Crushing Defeat at Hoylake. | By the Assoctated Press. | HOYLAKE, England, June 20.—C.| Ross (Sandy) Somerville, Canadian holder of the United States amateur golf title, today advanced to the fourth round of the British amateur cham- pilonship with a crushing 8-and-7 vic- tory over W. H. Sharpe of Dunbar. | Charles Sweeny, one of the American | brothers who are students at Oxford, | defeated J. S. Rowell, 4 and 3, in & second-round encounter. T. A. Torrance, Walker Cup star, de- feated J. Sidney Powell, 1 up, but Wil- | liam Sutton, another well known Brit- ish golfer, fell before J. W. Jones in 19 holes. i Brig. Gen. A. P. C. Critchley, na- tive Canadian, who won the French| amateur title a few days ago, won his second-round match from Rex Crum- mack of St. Andrews, 4 and 3. ‘William Mandel, New York acrobatic comedian, wasn't agile enough to keep out of the bunkers and lost to R. Thair- wall in his first match, 2 and 1. | Mandel at one time had a two-hole lead, but then started a tour of the‘ bunkers and lost -1 the sixteenth and seventeenth holes to end the con- test. Douglas Grant, American lving in| London, advanced to the third round with a 2 and 1 victory over C. P. John- stone of the Royal Calcutta. J. M. Burns, another of the Canadian entrants, was put out in the second | round by F. McGloin of West Kint, 5 and 4. The Canadian delegation was reduced | to two—Somerville and Jack Nash—as| Lewis Ybarri, a Spaniard, defeated Don Anderson of St. Thomas, Ontario, 3 and 2 in a second-round encounter. Robert Sweeny, brother of Charles, advanced through the third round by default. MISTAKES AT' PARLEY LAID TO INEPTITUDE OF U. S. DELEGATION (Continued From First Page.) the last days of the congressional ses- sion the President deemed it unwise to ask for this authority, but wireless messages from the boat indicating that the horizontal tariff cut was under consideration were sent to Washington and London. Then 10 days elapsed. Hendrik Co- lijn, the chairman of the Economic Commission of the conference, asked all the delegations in a circular letter to submit their suggestions for the Agenda Committee. Mr. Chalmers, at Secretary Hull's suggestion, prepared and submitted, along with a letter from the Secretary, a memorandum which put the 10 per cent horizontal cut into the hopper. That was Saturday morning. Inside the American delegation the members and experts are divided upon the wis- dom of a horizontal cut. Some one of the delegation probably tipped off the fact that the memorandum had gone to the Economic Committee. There is no question that Secretary Hull submitted the memorandum in good faith, expecting it to be released for publication on Monday and not on Saturday. The reporters could not find him Saturday night. The press associa- tions in London picked up the story for their Sunday editions. On Sunday Senator Pittman, who is interested in currency stabilization through the use of silver as an auxiliary currency, read the story in the London papers with astonishment and probably with indignation. Other members of the delegation were out of town Sun- day, but the Senator considered it wise to issue a formal disavowal for the whole delegation, and the fat was in the fire. Senator Pittman's disavowal was as casual as Secretary Hull's submission of the memorandum. In the meantime a denial had come from Washington of the story that the United States was join Great Britain in stabilizing the dollar with the pound. George L. Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank left Saturday for home. Norman Davis, the President's peripatetic diplomatic alter ego, ap- peared unannounced in London and vanished over night. The dollar began buck and wing dencing all over the place. It was evi- dent that the delegation from America was out on the loose. These minor accidents were the re- sult not of policy—not of dissension— but a divine gift of ineptitude little short of sheer genius. Out of the kind- ness of his heart and in consideration for his colleagues, and without ade- quate secretarial guiding support, Secre- tary Hull has moved here in London a sincere, honest, high-minded gentleman, hesitating to dominate, not from lack of courage, but from excess of courtesy. He has been from the first only the temporary leader, expecting to return to the United States in the middle of the conference, which may account for the serious accidents in an environment wherein accidents inexorably become blunders. The fall of the dollar in London is somewhat due, though not largely, to the fact that the British, who played the dlg)lnmlt.lc game for life and death, cannot understand the easygoing way and the casual, slam-bang, slap-dash diplomacy of their American cousins. But be that as it may, when things are as they are and not as they should be, then results will be what they must be and not as we wish them. (Copyright, 1933, by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) AMERICANS VICTORS IN LONDON TENNIS Mrs. Moody, Vines, Sutter and Oth- ers Advance Easily in Preliminaries. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 20.—An American tennis delegation headed by Mrs. Helen Wills Moody and Ellsworth Vines, jr., taking final tuneups before entering the Wimbledon championships in defense of their singles titles, today advanced easily through the prelimi- nary play in the London championships at_the Queens Club. Vines' opponent defaulted and Mrs. Moody drew a first round bye and won a second round match. Lester Stoefen, Keith Gledhill, CIff Sutter, Clayton Lee Burwell, Virginia Rice and Mrs. Dorothy Andrus Burke all won easy | victories. Mrs. Burke is the defending cham- | HELD IN LOS ANGELES ON BURGLARY CHARGES. lions, and her father, Thomas author, is shown here at the G waiting preliminary hearing on charges of burglary and forgery. seven swift months the cultivated English girl, now 22 and sole heir to| EORGIANA MOORE, whose mother, Mrs. Beatrice Moore, is worth mil- Ewing Moore, is a retired diplomat and Los Angeles County Jall, where she is| In $3,000,000, dropped her life of a little princess, became estranged from her wealthy mother, and ended in jail after being apprehended breaking into a house and paying for expensive goods forged check. ordered at a department store with a —Wide World Photo. b. 0. P. MEETINGS BEGUNBY SANDERS Maryland, Virginia, West Vir- ginia, North Carolina and D. C. Represented. By the Associated Press. The first of a series of regional con- ferences with Republican party leaders was held here yesterday by Chairman | Sanders of the Republican National Committee, he announced last night in one of the first formal announcements to issue from headquarters of the com- mittee here since inauguration. A group of Republican leaders from Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Co- lumbia met with Sanders at the com- mittee headquarters during the after- noon. He said other such meetings would be held in various sections of the country during the next few weeks. An announcement from Republican headquarters said: . “Mr, Sanders stated that the meeting was most enthusiastic and was a vehicle for a very full and intimate discussion of the political situation existing in each State; that no greater encourage- ment could have been offered than the assurance of the undiminished ardor of our party workers throughout the re- glon represented, and the reiteration of the whole-hearted support in the work he was carrying on. “He stated that he would announce the other copferences as they were ar- ranged from time to time.” MATTERN SEARCH STILL IS DELAYED Fogs Hold Navy Airmen in Hunt for Around-the-World Flyer. By the Assoclated Press. NOME, Alaska, June 20.— Still weather-bound at their isolated Pribilof Island base, two Navy airmen today awaited clearing skies before starting a search for Jimmy Mattern, round-the- world flyer, missing since he took off Wednesday from Khabarovsk, Siberia, | en route here. Low-hanging clouds and fogs in this | vicinity and the Aleutian Islands has kept the airmen, Ensign William A. Moffet, jr. son of the late Rear Ad-| miral Moffet, and Lieut. John Vest, close to thelr base, the old troop ship Argonne, for the past two days. Weather reports from that vicinity last night indicated no breaks in the clouds and with little change expect- ed soon. ‘The Bremerton Naval Wireless Sta- tion had heard nothing from the Navy airmen late last night. The St. Paul Island Naval Station also had not talked to the Argonne and sald it was almost impossible to get any information then. Meanwhile at Unalaska the Coast Guard vessels Alert and Shoshone awaited fairer weather before starting a search. Alaska flyers have expressed the belief Mattern may have landed along the Siberian coast or on one of the numer- ous small islands in the Aleutian chain. IPHATH ESERBES DEAL 10 GET BR. “Masked Figure” on Boat Holds Interest in Massa- chusetts Kidnap Trial. By the Assoclated Press. BARNSTABLE, Mass,, June 20.—Neil C. McMath, father of Margaret (Peggy) McMath, graphically described his deal- ings with a “masked figure” for the return of his kidnaped child, to a Cape Cod jury today. He testified in Barnstable Superior Court, where Kenneth and Cyril Buck, Harwichport brothers, are being tried for the kidnaping of the 10-year-old child. Peggy was taken from the Har- wich Center Grammar School on May 2 and returned three days later after the payment of $60,000 ransom, which lm,e'rl was recovered in the home of Ken- neth. McMath, facing the two defendants, who sat 30 feet away, flanked by depu- ties, told of the final negotiations with the “masked " aboard a yacht in Wychmere Harbor. - The prosecution presented notes alleged to have been written by the kidnaper aboard the boat at an interview during which he did not speak. McMath, looking across a crowded court room, told of the first night he encountered the hooded man. He was on the cruiser Bob, he said, when a skiff .put off from shore, carrying three men. In the light of a half moon, he sald, he saw that one of the men was masked. McMath testified that on the night the child was returned to him, he was told to be prepared to go off with the hooded individual and to bring arms if he wished to. “Bring a machine gun if you want to,” he quoted the masked man as hav- ing written. Child Placed Beside Him. McMath said that with the masked man and Cyril he drove off in his own automobile. After going some distance the car was stopped and a hood was pulled over his (McMath’s) head. He testified they drove for some distance and then the child was put into the car beside him. McMath said that after a time the “masked figure” got out of the car. They drove to Harwich Center, he said, and went to the Bob. A short time later, Mrs. McMath came aboard. He said he scratched & match so that Mrs. McMath could see the child’s face, remarking as he did, “isn’t she sweet?” He said the moon had gone down behind the trees as the “joyous reunion | was he! . He then told of the appearance of the Coast Guard boat and the trip to Woods Hole and subsequent interroga- tion. The witness then was questioned by Willard Carleton, counsel for Cyril Carleton, through a series of ques- {ions, gained the statement from Mc- Math that he and Cyril had been “mutual friends working for a common cause.” McMath said he had once said to Cyril “4f I could only get my girl back there isn't a thing in the world I wouldn't do for you.” Ray Tucker Joins Collier's. Ray Tucker, on the Washington staff | of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, has | resigned to accept the post of Wash- ington correspondent of Collier’s Week- ly, succeeding the late Clinton W. Gil: bert. DUST, FOOD AND DRUGS STUDIED IN PRISON AS CRIME STIMULANTS Doctor Seeking Answer to Whether These Agents Affect *“Stability” of Behavior. By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y., June 20.—An ex- | periment to discover whether “sensiti- zation” of the nervous system to dust, pion in women's singles. Vines defeated L. de Bormp 6—3, 6—2, in the second round. | Sutter, third ranking United States player, defeated R. O. Williams in a first round match, 6—1, 6—0; Miss Rice of Boston defeated Mrs. Lyon, 6—1. 6—3, and Mrs. Burke of Stamford, | CO";"" won from Miss I. Bull, .6—1, | Stoefen won a 6—0, 6—0 victory over | 3. G. Kell, and Gledhill reached the | second round with a 6—1, 6—3 victory | over E. 8. Scudder. Burwell, former North Carolina Uni- versity ace, and now a student at Ox- ford and ' champlon there, defeated | Clynton Reed in a first round match, | 6—2, 6—2. McGee after his arrest by local officers l apd stated they had obtained a written confession from the man. ' Mrs. Moody defeated Miss Hubback, 6—0, 6—1, to advance cne round ahead of the field, = | Association. medical drugs or even the wrong kinds of food plays any part in producing psychopathic conditions that lead to crime is being made with 50 inmates of Sing Sing Prison. ‘The experimenter is Dr. V. C. Bran- ham, deputy State commissioner of cor- rection and secretary of the new “sec- tion on forensic psychiatry and conduct disorders” of the American Paychiatric He seeks to discover whether such influences bear any re- lationship to “instability” of behavior. Dr. Branham relies on skin tests to show whether the individual is affected by certain kinds of dust, pollen, drugs or foods to the extent that he may be- come “unstable.” In this state restless, and in some cases may commit impulsive acts, Dr. Branham has found. “Some individuals with such a sensi- tized nervous system must only smell the offending object to become affected,” he said. For purposes of the experiment solu- tions made of milk, eggs, meat, pollen, medical drugs or various dusts are in- jected through the skin. Then the ;l;‘)lpenunce of the skin is watched care- ly. Dr. Branham explained that his ex- periment is not being made with any idea of discovering a “cause of crime.” “We are simply trying to develop one method of tting certain psyco- pathic individi " he sald. “Some one who is unstable, restless and ner- vous is more likely to become anti- social than some one who is happy and well poised.” Dr. Branham said he believed an in- to various disturbi elements might is| be of ore stable” by avoidance ible theufln!nmwm him, SCORES ITHELL Prosecutor Sums Up Case Against Banker at In- come Tax Trial. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 20.—George Z. Medalie, Federal prosecutor, summing up today the Government's case against | Charles E. Mitchell, charged with hav- ing evaded payment of more than $850,000 income tax, declared that neither Mitchell “nor any one who | speaks for him" had the right to appeal to “the sympathy and the emotions of a fury “He is a dynamic figure,” Medalie said, referring to the former chairman of the National City Bank. “I can still see him sitting there in the witness chair, pointing his finger at you to make more forceful his state- ments. Even the lawyers in the court room envied him his terrific forensic ability “If there ever was a public example, showing deflance of law and mong— if such & deflance remains unpunish- able, confidence in our political and economic organization would collapse.” Attacks Defense. Medalle attacked Mitchell's defense that in his various transactions he had the advice of lawyers. ~A man doesn’t fool himself by con- ;\flth;]g a lah"l‘sr ‘:hen, by failing to do share, he icreas the OfuuthPrs." Medalie saldx.n‘ i Nothing is gained by asking s lawyer which are the correct means of carrying out an honest p 3 Not every man who mmgh of- fice in the business or banking world is under suspicion or prosecution, Most of them are true to their trust. But when, one betrays the confidence re- posed in him, the last thing he has a right’to say, either morally or in good sportsmanship, is that he has been singled out, or that he is the object of pemcullnon.‘é Max D. Steuer, Mitchell's attorney, in his summation yester ‘mentioned the possibility that Mitchell might have b.;eun prosecuted because of his promi- nence. “It is the Government's contention,” Medalie said, taking up the first of the charges against the banker, “that Charles E. Mitchell, whatever he may have done on December 19, 1929, never intended to sell those 18,300 shares of National City Bank stock to his wife.” Mitchell Listens Quietly. Medalie charged that, aware before it became known publicly that a merger with the Corn Exchange Bank was not going through, Mitchell and Hugh B. Baker, chairman of the Na- tional City Co. unloaded 5,000 shares of National City Bank stock on Dr. John Dorrance of Philadelphia, soup manu- facturer. “They knew the merger was not going through and that the price of that stock was going down,” he said. “No wonder they had Dr. Dorrance up in New York for lunch in Mr. m”--’"" private dining room at the Discussing sale of 18,300 shares of National City Bank stock to Mrs. Mitchell, Medalie said: “Counsel for the defense seems to take the position I was finding fault with the sale of the 18,300 shares. I think he will agree with me that it was just as effective as an excl e of papers with gold seals. In fact, I'll go further and say that, if the attempt onest, of cil you,” the prosecutor said: we went through those forms on December 20, 1929, let’s call it quits’” SHOUSE CHALLENGE REFUSED BY DRYS Will Not Give List of States They Expect to Win and Invite Attack. By the Associated Press. ‘The Anti-Saloon League today re- plied to Jouett Shouse’s challenge that prohibition leaders name six States that would reject repeal with a statement which said: “Naturally, no dry leader will present the wets with a’list of States and thereby invite a concentrated wet_attack.” Shouse, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, asserted the only hope of the drys was to keep “13 States from p* “The objections to delay in elections given by the wet leaders is of course deceptive,” the Anti.Saloon League statement said. “They say they want to get $2,000,000 & day in revenue from liquor, and ex- press concern over the difficulty of en- forcing the law during the campaign for repeal. “However, the two real underlying motives of the wet interests are clearly the desire of the wet politicians to hasten elections in order to take ad- vantage of the abnormal economic situation, and the desire of the liquor interests to quickly harvest the enor- mous profits from the manufacture and sale of a habit-forming beverage. “If, as the wet leaders estimate, re. peal would bring in $2,000,000 a day in revenue, this means that repeal would take away at least $13,000,000 a day from other business interests. * * ¢ “It is true that political pressure and wet money have gotten out the wet vote in the wettest States, but these tactics have not discouraged the drys and the real battle is just begun.” DRYS PLACE HOPE IN IOWA VOTE TODAY; THREE STATES ACT (Continued From First Page.) “drys” came from J. W. Graves, secre- tary of the All-Iowa Prohibition Emer- gency Committee, who urged voters to remain away from the polls unless thee were against repeal. ‘Warm weather was regarded as a deterrent to an above-normal vote, while the lateness of the agricultural season may cut the farm vote. The fight over liquor has been waged for nearly 100 years in Iowa, tradi- tionally regarded as dry. Saloons closed in Towa in 1916, under a State prohibi- tion law. By today’s vote Iowans will name either 99 wet or 99 dry delegates to at- tend a constitutional convention on July 20. The polls close at 8 p.m. DRYS ADMIT DEFEAT. Leader Says 16 to 1 Wet Victory Is Possible. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 20 (f).— The Connecticut prohibitionist organi~ zation, the citizens ratification, | ;dflmfli:c;d m:ode:‘yhthe 'iuu' which never rat teenth amendment, was lost to their cause. “ dividual found to be highly sensitive| pledged